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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2006
Applicant:

Thomas M. Slaight, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventor:

Thomas M. Slaight, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for address mapping for data packet routing. An embodiment of a network controller includes an address filter, where the address filter is to receive a data packet that has a shared address for a plurality of devices as a destination. The network controller also includes a sideband filter to identify an intended recipient device for the packet based on information contained in the packet, and an address mapper to substitute an address for the intended recipient device in place of the shared address of the data packet.


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